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Xiaomi is looking to raise $1.5 billion in new funding

Xiaomi is planning to raise about $1.5 billion in its fifth round of financing, media reports said. The company, which has dominated China's smartphone market, is talking to investors and...

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Sony will remain in China despite job cuts and stiff competition

Analysts expect Sonyto continue to have a strong presence in China's smartphone market, despite its announcement last week of plans to reduce its exposure to the world's largest handset market...

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Microsoft doubles down on hybrid cloud with Azure in a box offering

Microsoft Monday doubled down on hybrid clouds by unveiling an on-premises system that syncs up with Azure public cloud services. With its new Cloud Platform System (CPS), Microsoft is attempting...

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Samsung’s latest Chromebook is powered by an Intel chip

Samsung may have bowed out of the European laptop market but it is not giving up on North America as yet. Earlier this year the company launched its Chromebook 2...

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Facebook explains how it protects user passwords

The amount of hacking and leaking of user information these days is starting to become a little disturbing. It wasn’t too long ago that photos saved by a third-party Snapchat...

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Google improves Classroom with more tools and options

Google first unveiled Classroom in May as a preview and now it’s issuing the first updates to the product. The touched up product allows teachers to more easily integrate their...

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Verizon could be retiring the Lumia Icon

You might remember that earlier this year there were a lot of rumors about Verizon receiving an exclusive Windows Phone device. In February the Lumia Icon was exclusively launched on...

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Microsoft denies rumor that it’s killing off Surface tablets

There are times when Digitimes offers up interesting and accurate information, particularly when it comes to supply chain news. There are other times, however, when it seems as though its...

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NVIDIA brings its Maxwell architecture to laptops

Every year NVIDIA launches quite a few new products; some are better than others, but they're all interesting. This fall, the big news is Maxwell 2.0, aka GM204. Initially launched...

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iOS 8’s adoption rate is abysmal

Apple loves to tout how quickly people update to its newest software, but with iOS 8, many are choosing to hold back. The company’s own numbers show that only 1%...

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Women make up 29% of Microsoft’s work force

Microsoft is the latest tech company to release public information on its employee diversity, and today said the percentage of its employees who are women is up compared to last...

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Google shakes things up again with another cloud storage price cut

Google has fired back at Microsoft with cheaper cloud services, signaling another round of price cutting in an increasingly competitive market. Citing enhanced efficiency in its data centers as well...

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